Siege of Jasna Góra

Part of the Second Northern War and The Deluge

Defence of Jasna Góra in 1655 by January Suchodolski

Date	November 28 – December 27, 1655
Location	Jasna Góra monastery in , Poland
Result	Decisive Polish victory

Belligerents

Sweden

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Commanders and leaders

General Burchard Müller von der Luhnen

Prior Augustyn Kordecki
Jan Paweł Cellari
Teofil Bronowski
Stanisław Warszycki

Units involved

Swedish army
German mercenaries

Monks, volunteer irregulars, peasant levies and mercenaries

Strength

3200 and 17 cannons

310 and 24—30 cannons

Casualties and losses

several hundred men

few dozen men

Coordinates: 50°48′45″N 19°05′51″E / 50.812569°N 19.097371°E / 50.812569; 19.097371

The Siege of Jasna Góra (also known less accurately as the Battle of Częstochowa, Polish: Oblężenie Jasnej Góry) took place in the winter of 1655 during the Second Northern War, or 'The Deluge' — as the Swedish invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is known. The Swedes were attempting to capture the Jasna Góra monastery in . Their month-long siege, however, was unsuccessful, as a small force consisting of monks from the Jasna Góra monastery led by their Prior and supported by local volunteers, mostly from the szlachta (Polish nobility), fought off the numerically superior Germans (who were hired by Sweden), saved their sacred icon, the and, according to some accounts, turned the course of the war.

On 6 August 1655, on this grim news, a council of war was held in the monastery of Jasna Gora under the leadership of Teofil Bronowski, the Priorship of Augustine Kordecki, and garrison commander of the fortress Colonel Jan Pawl, herb Cellari. We begin the preparations of the fortified monastery of Jasna Gora for armed defense.

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